Recall that Curt Hoffman,Ivy Lau,and David Johnson (1986) provided native English speakers and Chinese- English bilinguals with descriptions of people who fit either an "artistic type" or a "shi gú" type.English speakers filled in gaps in the descriptions with inferences about the artistic type,but not about the shi gú type.In contrast,bilinguals who read the descriptions in English filled in blanks for the artistic type,but not the shi gú type,and bilinguals who read the descriptions in Chinese filled in the blanks for the shi gú type,but not the artistic type.These results suggest that
A) not all cultures use implicit personality theories.
B) language and culture shape our implicit personality theories.
C) English speakers rely more on implicit personality theories than do Chinese speakers.
D) Westerners are cognitive misers,whereas Easterners are not.
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